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Preparing for A Level Physical Education

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Welcome

We know you are interested in A Level PE! We would like to give you more of a flavour of the course, hopefully inspire you and help you to develop skills to support your learning to get a head start for September. We have created both practical and theoretical activities for you to do in order to get you thinking about the subject. Some are compulsory and you need to bring these to induction in September, these are highlighted with an asterisk *. Others are voluntary but will introduce some resources that you can use both for the activities in the booklet as well as later on the course. It is aimed to be used throughout the remainder of the summer term and over the Summer Holidays.

PAGE ACTIVITIES

3 Course Overview* This introduces you to the exam board website and structure of the course

5 Practical Performance Sport* This shows you all the sports available and gives you tasks based on your initial sport choice

6 Practical Theory* This looks at the theory behind your practical performance and how you will be assessed. It also links to the oral coursework.

7 Your Sporting background* Tells us your sporting journey from childhood to date

8 Study Skills > Reflection* How well do you know how you study? What can you improve on? How do you best learn?

9 Study Skills > Reading and Note Taking A method to improve your skills, watch, read have a go! Introduces the Physiology area of the syllabus

13 Study Skills > Research and Critical Evaluation Tasks introducing the Psychology and Socio-Cultural elements. Research and evaluate your findings. Tell us your views they are important.

14 Careers in Sport Know what you want to do after college? What’s your plan? This section has hundreds of ideas to inspire you and shows you how to get there.

15 Course Text book Information Some students like to buy their textbooks this tells you what we use

16 Book Recommendations Want to improve your knowledge of sport? Try these inspiring reads!

18 Film/Movie Recommendations Want to improve your knowledge of sport? Try these inspiring films!

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Course Overview*

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-physical-education-h155-h555-from-2016/

1. Click on the hyperlink

to take you to the

OCR website for PE

2. Download the A level

Specification

3. Use this to complete the missing facts in the table

on the next page

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COURSE STRUCTURE: Assessment break down*

Content overview

Assessment Overview

Marks Duration % Weighting

Physiology component 01

A & P

Biomechanics

Exercise Physiology

Psychology component 02

Skill Acquisition

Sports Psychology

Socio Cultural Issues 03

Sport & Society

Contemporary Issues

Performance CWK: NEA 04

Performance/Coaching

EAPI

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Practical performance*

You need to start to think about which ONE sport you will choose as your practical activity. This will count as 15% of your final A Level PE grade.

Go back to the OCR website

Click on the ‘updated activity list’ for 2022 examination Scroll down to the activity list document; click and open Scroll down to activities for assessment in 2022 these are your options

What sport will you choose? Unsure? Find out more about the assessment criteria of the different sports:

To explore further on the OCR page :

Scroll down the page and Click on ‘Guide to non-exam assessment’ and download the document.

Scroll to page 38 it will give you the page number for the criteria of your sport Assessment.

Read and select the sport you think you will submit. Write this sport on the dotted line below:

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

Will you be assessed as a performer or coach? Please highlight which one.

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-physical-education-h155-h555-from-2016/

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Practical Theory*

Using the criteria for the sport assessment above. Read the range of ‘core and advanced skills’ needed in your chosen sport

Task

Select 3 of these skills and find at least 10 coaching points/technique of how you complete these skills. i.e. a perfect technical model.

You can use a governing body website, BBC sport education, YouTube or any other resources.

Some skills can be broken down into phases and coaching points given for each phase. You can present these with pictures to help with the explanation of the phases. These pictures can be of yourself!

Task:

Select one of these skills and produce a poster showing the key coaching points to complete the skill. You can use one or many pictures to illustrate your findings; be creative, the best posters will be used to decorate the classroom.

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Your Sporting Background*

Task:

Write an essay on your sporting background. It is a chance for you to show us your writing and presentation skills but is also helps us to support you in your choice of sport for your practical when you find it hard to choose!

Your essay should include all of the following areas:

This should be handed in during your first week in September.

School Club Experiences

Influences from family,friends teachers

Best and worst moments in sport

The reasons why you have chosen PE

Your future aspirations in Sport and PE

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Study Skills in PE*

Personal Reflection – Study Habits In order to succeed in A-Level Physical Education you will need to learn, understand and relate new theoretical concepts to relevant practical examples and case studies. It is therefore essential that we begin to understand how you work in order to fully utilise both your lesson and independent study time and for you to consider how you can improve your performance. Consider the following questions, paying specific focus to your recent studies and work ethic What do you consider to be your key strengths in the classroom? (I.e. Concentration/patience/work ethic/well-presented thorough notes/positive questioning)

What are your weaknesses? (I.e. Peer distraction/ability to concentrate/listening/engagement/processing speed/reluctance to ask questions)

Think about how you have been taught throughout your secondary schooling, what types of teaching strategies/tasks/lessons captured your imagination and thus reinforced your learning? (I.e. Group tasks/practical role plays/reciprocal pair-peer activities/teacher led)

How do you revise? What strategies served you well? What doesn’t work for you

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Reading, Research and Note Taking

Research, reading and note making are essential skills for A Level PE study. When researching you need to make notes, students often find this difficult, the Cornell method is one way of making your notes more effective, especially for when you look back over them. Task: Watch the following video on how to do Cornell note taking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ErSjc1PEGKE Here is a summary of how it could be used:

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Tasks Using the Cornell Method

Read the following article from the PE review and make a set of notes using the

Cornell Method from the Physiology section of the course which is about the body systems:

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Sports Psychology – Sports psychology is concerned with the mind and how it functions in a sporting and competition situation. Read the article entitled – ‘THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTIVATION, SELF- CONFIDENCE AND ANXIETY’

https://believeperform.com/the-relationship-between-motivation-self-confidence-and-anxiety/

Answer the following questions – 1. What are the two types of motivation?

2. Which one is deemed the most important for sustained success?

3. According to Feltz what is ‘self-confidence’?

4. What often happens to performers experiencing high levels of anxiety?

5. What is the issue with setting unrealistic goals?

How about you – Motivation

1. Make a list of all the reasons you play/participate/compete in your current sport

2. Using the answer to question 1 above highlight against each reason which type of motivation it is –

Are you motivated by one type in particular? (You will need to have read the article!)

3. Please give a personal example where you have used a type of motivation to achieve success in

your sport.

4. Do you have any current goals or aspirations in your sport?

Sport & Society – The key to this area of the exam is to immerse yourself in contemporary sporting issues both past and present, examples are the key to success. Task – Research Task. Over the coming months please take a moment to read/collect/log articles relating to the following areas: Modern Olympic Games - A brief history - Why do countries want to host a games? - Positive and negatives implications of hosting a modern Olympic Games - Consequences going forward of the postponement of Tokyo 2020 from the viewpoint of:

1. Competing athletes

2. Commercial partners / Sponsors

The Premier League v Covid 19 - With a critical eye assess the reasoning behind the perceived rush to get Premier League fixtures up and running. Make observations and look at the media’s response to - The financial structure of clubs - Player wages - Sky Sports - Commercial sponsors / Cooperate businesses - Lower league clubs

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Careers Options with A Level PE

What are your future aspirations? If you know write them below:

Unsure? A Level PE combines well with all A levels: Need further inspiration?

Task: Explore this site for sport related careers: it’s the ultimate for ideas and hopefully will inspire you!

https://careers-in-sport.co.uk/

I think my future career could be as:

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Core Text:

Core Books for the course and Book recommendations

The core text book we use in the classroom: when needed we provide one

for your use. For independent study we have an EBook version.

The revision guide we recommend that you purchase your own copy so

you can make notes and highlight on the pages. You are able for the 2nd

year of the course to loan a copy from the learning centre but you cannot

annotate it.

John Honeybourne Sarah Powell ISBN:

Revision Guide:

Keri Moorhouse

ISBN:

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Book recommendations

Kick back this summer with a good read. The books below are all popular sport books and great for extending your understanding of Sport.

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Film Recommendations

Everyone loves a good story and everyone loves some great science. Here are some of the picks of the best films based on real life scientists and discoveries. You won’t find Jurassic Park on this list, we’ve looked back over the last 50 years to give you our top 5 films you might not

have seen before. Great watching for a rainy day.

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WHAT'S THE STORY?

Concussion

In CONCUSSION, Dr. Bennet Omalu is a caring, thorough doctor at the

Pittsburgh medical examiner's office who's baffled by his latest case:

local football legend Mike Webster, who had deteriorated seemingly dies

for no obvious reason. Eventually Omalu realizes that Webster's brain is

damaged, the result of years of hits to the head playing football -- and

many, many other players are at risk of the same fate. By identifying the

condition that comes to be called chronic traumatic encephalopathy

(CTE), Omalu offering a strong example of integrity and perseverance,

goes up against the powerful NFL, which has no interest in admitting the

sport is dangerous to players and does everything it can to discredit the

doctor. This David-vs.-Goliath story has plenty of violent football scenes

that often leave players dazed or unconscious, as well as some intense

moments when retired players succumb to fits of rage.

Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans tells the inspirational true story about the struggles and victories of a newly-integrated high school

football team in 1971 Alexandria, Virginia. As such, the film reflects the divisive nature of the times -- the film begins with

a near-riot scene between African-Americans and whites on the street separated by the police as bottles and windows

break. The racial tensions of the town -- segregation in restaurants, racial slurs, fist fights in the high school -- are shown

to highlight the backdrop in which the Titans must learn to get along and play together as a team.

It's important to know for REMEMBER THE TITANS that it wasn't until 1971, 17 years after the Brown v. Board of

Education decision, that black students came to T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. Every other team in that

football-loving district was still segregated. But the white T.C. Williams players were confronted with not only a whole

new set of black players, but a black coach, Herman Boone In a matter of a few weeks,

Boone has to make them into a team -- and it has to be a winning team, because the school board is looking for any

reason to fire him so they can reinstate Coach Yoast now demoted to assistant. Boone takes the boys to a college near

Gettysburg for training. It's impossible to say which is the tougher workout for the team -- the physical challenges of

drills and practices or the emotional challenge of overcoming a lifetime of anger and prejudice. Like all great coaches,

Boone and Yoast teach the team that they have it within themselves to be great as well. And they realize that they get

as much from the boys as the boys get from them.

Ultimately, Remember the Titans is a deeply moving film about the courage of individuals and the power of sports to

transcend perceived and ingrained differences. It demonstrates most psychology theories of leadership and the power

of group cohesion